Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 2 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 3 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 4 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 5 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |
| 6 | It is not providence , but it may have been meant just the same . |
| 7 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 8 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 9 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 10 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 11 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 13 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 14 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 15 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 16 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 17 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 18 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 19 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 20 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 21 | Now I know she lives in the Nottingham area now although she 's been widowed quite a few years . |